Art Lebedev lets loose Plastinkus scratch pad
By Donald Melanson 
posted July 29th 2008 5:04PM
posted July 29th 2008 5:04PM
Sure, you could whip out your iPhone or Nintendo DS and your app of choice for a little impromptu DJ session before dinner, or you could get yourself one (or two) of Art Lebedev's new Plastinkus scratch pads, which supposedly sound just like you're scratching the real thing. While that claim may be somewhat dubious, at about four bucks apiece they're certainly at least worth taking a chance on, and you can even get 'em in no less than forty different color combinations. Now, if we could only get our business cards printed on them.
[Via Pocket-lint]
[Via Pocket-lint]
"Fill caves with servers, not bombs!"
Why? So they can attack our defense networks everyday the way China does? No thanks.
Yes, it's their perception of our free wheeling, amoral, wrong(or no) religion, culture of gluttony vs. their strict moral codes.
It's not just religion, but, and yes, I'm going to quote GW, because it's true (but not something that can easily be explained in a soundbite), they hate our freedoms. Our freedom to have sex with a woman who is showing skin. Our freedom to do what we want when we want. Including spending money on a piece of plastic that makes mildly amusing sounds.
Because to the fundamental mind, that's the biggest threat of them all. (See also, Focus on the Family. At least they don't blow anything up on a regular basis.)
In action, minus the cat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX5dR3BXcD0
I think I would have preferred the video with just the cat.
So, I stick these in my Intellivision controller, right?
You can reproduce their "Scratch" sound with any vinyl 3d sticker. You know the ones that you used to get in a box of Cracker Jacks. the ones that have three images on them(they make me stomach stick and pukey). So this is not new tech or any kind of tech. I actually think it's one of the most annoying sounds known to mankind. FAIL!
Can you guys (Engadget) come up with a new catch phrase besides 'Lets Loose'? The first dozen times it was, oh, different, I guess, but you're beating it to death. We get it. You're hip and trendy, and say funny things. Find something else to run in to the ground.
Maybe they will "let loose" a epic beating on you!
Seems like a lot of people are not familiar with the word 'lenticular'
That's what it's called. Man this is old. My baby toys had this material on them. Now that I think about this, our old TV has a screen with that
Well below Art Lebedev regular standard
Sounds gay but anyone know a store online in the US where I can pick up one of these? long story. I checked ebay but they dont have any.
I scratched one backwards and heard Satan. True story.
In endgadget's defense, Art Lebedev did throw the first batch out the window to see if they would fly.